A Critical Dragon | Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Reviewing versus Reader Response @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Recently I had a commenter that said they had read Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and that it was badly written. Also, my nemesis Philip Chase recently made some comments about reviewing and Goodreads.
So I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk about both subjects.
How to evaluate text, and how that impacts what reviewing is.
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Recently I had a commenter that said they had read Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and that it was badly written. Also, my nemesis Philip Chase recently made some comments about reviewing and Goodreads.
So I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk about both subjects.
How to evaluate text, and how that impacts what reviewing is.
If you would like to buy me a coffee or a book, Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/criticaldragon
Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
![Is Chat GPT a good editor [should I be worried]? Will AI editors replace people like me?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QktobgHRu9A/hqdefault.jpg "Is Chat GPT a good editor [should I be worried]? Will AI editors replace people like me?
A lot is being said about Chat GPT replacing authors, but from the various outputs I have seen I am really not convinced that it will any time in the near future. However, could AI replace editors?
These Large Language Models and AI assistants already auto-correct, flag grammar and spelling errors, and suggest new phrasings, so can they replace editors?
In this video I took three very short samples from some authors work and asked Chat GPT Can you edit the following passage?.
Here are the results.
I am not really concerned if the AI is good at editing, what I am interested in is what it is doing, how it approaches it, and if it can be a useful tool for creative writing. Is it really a timesaving device? Will it actually replace human authors and editors, or do we still need humans intimately involved in the process?
As a point of clarity, I didnt tell the programme if it had done a good job or a bad job as I dont wish to help train something that various industries are seeing as a way to cut human artists, authors, and skilled professionals out of the workplace. But I was surprised at what it did.
The original chat I had with @PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy can be found here: https://youtu.be/5vVEtWBplVk
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